Rahul Gupta

9 years of experience in an established organization to a startup company in delivering high performance and analysis-based solutions to meet challenging business demands. As Lead Data Engineer I've led the creation of high performance data pipelines for multiple terabytes of data using Python, SQL, and open-source technologies. I have extensive experience in data architecture, cloud-based data infrastructure, ETL pipeline development, and data warehouse design.
  • Interests: Data Engineering, Cloud Based Data Infrastructure, ETL, Data Warehousing, Open source systems for data pipelines
  • Skills: SQL, Python, Linux

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Upgrading Admin Queries

I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?  

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